Can donor splice site recognition occur without the involvement of U1 snRNP?

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 548-550

  Raponi, Michela ^a   Baralle, Diana ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b PRINCESS ANNE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Base pairing; Donor splice site recognition; Pre mRNA maturation; Splice site; Spliceosome; U1 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein (U1 snRNP)

Indexed keywords

SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

BASE PAIRING; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME;

ANIMALS; DISEASE; HUMANS; MUTATION; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U1 SMALL NUCLEAR; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U4-U6 SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA SPLICING;

EID: 45249109767     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST0360548     Document Type: Review

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